The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE were never so many peaches grown
along the Hudson, reports say, as this year. The
crop is expected to exceed that of last year by
5000 tons.
DIR. CossoN, Berlin physician, who recently
died left the bulk of his fortune, amounting to
10000 marks, to the poor of the French colony
OF that city.
NEVADA TOWNS, in which wood has been
burned exclusively as fuel, are beginning to
order coal, as q result of recent reductions in
freight rates.
IT is alleged that many Indians in Adams
county, Wisconsin, who hold lands in severalty
and are counted as citizens, are poygamists.
One doctor, 1t is alleged, has nine wives.
AT PATERSON, N. j., ON Saturday some 1900
Italians held a jubilee. Two flags that matched
Italian and Amercan-Tnade of silk woven all
In one piece, and at O cost OF $4,000, were I'M
furled
THE steamship San Pablo, built by Cramp &
Sons, a few years ago, made the passage from
Yokohama TO san Francisco in IA days and %
hours, said to be the quickest passage on record
between these two ports.
THE new laboratory at Yale College which is
being built at an expense of $50, 600 will be fin
ished about December, /. 1t is built of brown
stone, with handsome tower, and is one of the
finest edificeS of the institution.
THE Holland CMich) fruit train in four days
last week took sixty nine cars of fruit into Chi
cago, which contained 70,60S packages. The
largest train of fruit ever taken out of that sec
ton was the one of Wednesday last, consist ing
of twenty-siX cars.
RICHARD E. GORDON, a well-to-do farmer living
five miles southwest of Belleville, Mich, was
shocked by lightning stroke last week His
lower limbs are paralyzed and his head is twice
its usual size. The hands are pulled up to five
times their usual thickness.
THE decree has gone forth in Paris that a
taste for rare books, curious editions, and fine
bindings is now to be the fashion among all
ladies who move in society 1t will no longer
be the thing to furnish blue and white rooms
with books in blue and white or to Danish from
the drawing rooms books whose bindings do not
match the chairs.
The use of kerosene as fuel for large steam
engine furnaces is reported growing very
rapidly in Russia The Russian Minister of
Marine has ordered liquid fuel furnaces to be
fitted to the ironclad Tchesme, now under
course of completion at Sebastopol. This is said
to be the first time the Of liquid fuel has been
attempted on ironclads
DURING a thunder shower the other
day the Grand Army of the Republic
Flagstaff, at Nashville, Mich, was shat
tered by lightning. The next forenoon
three of the intelligent citizens of that burg put
in several hours digging about the foot Of the
pole in a vain endeavor TO find the thunderbot,
which they had been told could be found
THE villa of Albert Krupp, the great gun
maker, was furnished with all the splendor of
prncely residence. But it contained one special
article OF decoration such as no sovereign in the
world can boast, absolutely unique of its kind.
and therefore not to be estimated according to
its monetary value. This is q mirror of polished
steel over feet in height and feet wide.
LAST Saturday evening the Salvation Army at
Ingersoll, Can, introduced a novel and attract
i've feature in their usual parade It consisted
of ten young ladies arrayed in white robes.
somewhat after the oriental style of garments,
and each car led a lamp in her hand. Five of
the lamps were lighted and the other five were
not. The object was to represent the parable
of the ten virgins
New York wine merchant says that the
consumption of brandy is steadily declining
The increas1 of population ought to keep it
where it was if the decline was slight, but it
grows less and less every year. His explana-
ton is not that Americans believe it a more
hurtful beverage than whisky, but that the, peo-
pie are notso well off to be able to resist the
economy of whisky drinking.